Events

Professor David Farrier - Professor of Literature and the Environment - School of Literature, Languages and Culture, The University of Edinburgh (https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/david-farrier) Abstract The collapse of Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier—forecast to occur before the end of the decade—could raise global sea level by three metres. The grounding line, eroded by currents of warm water, is arguable […]

Dr. Brandon Chua - Assistant Professor of English - School of English, The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/85/Dr_Brandon_Chua) Abstract Recent studies of the British Enlightenment have turned to a site of cultural production traditionally overlooked in Enlightenment scholarship: the playhouses of Eighteenth Century London. This work-in-progress paper takes up this revisionist inquiry of Georgian theatrical […]

Dr. Charlotte Taylor - Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics (English) - School of Media, Arts and Humanities, University of Sussex (https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p329327-charlotte-taylor) Abstract In this talk, I discuss the presence and role of nostalgia in contemporary discourses of migration in the UK. I start by examining nostalgia in immigration discourses and take the case-study […]

9:30 am

Dr. Claire Gullander-Drolet - Postdoctoral Fellow - Society of Fellows in the Humanities, The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/243/Dr_Claire_Gullander-Drolet)

Tuesday

Postponed to September

Dr. Jerrine Tan - Assistant Professor, Department of English - City University of Hong Kong (https://jerrinetan.squarespace.com/) Abstract The assertion of national powers and enforcement of authority in wartime are often inscribed through the enactment of sexual violence on women’s bodies. This talk will read Korean American writer Chang-Rae Lee’s A Gesture Life, which broaches the […]